Senior Mechanical Engineer

Our diverse projects will provide the opportunity to evolve your engineering skills. Working across the full spectrum of RIBA deliverable stages for new and refurbished facilities.

The team structure ensures quality mentoring and coaching, synchronised to your development as you grow your knowledge and working experience.

Our projects cover all sectors of the construction industry creating great insight to cross pollination of ideas and solutions allowing you to re-think standards and deliver quality engineered responses.

The team's continued success has created opportunities to expand, with an exciting opportunity for a Senior Mechanical Engineer to join our experienced and talented Engineering Team.

• Work as part of a design team delivering reports, specifications, performance and detailed design solutions
• Use specialist computer-aided design (CAD) and BIM (Revit) software and other resources to design the compliant systems solutions
• Undertake design calculations to support and demonstrate compliance with client requirements aligned to the proposed solution
• Undertake site survey and capture data relevant to the appointment i.e. initial survey, on-going site inspections, defect recording and witness
• Reviewing construction design details and making comment
• Liaise closely with other professionals, including structural engineers, architects, surveyors, and contractors of in-house and external project teams
• Attend a range of project group and technical meetings
• Ensure that the design and maintenance of building systems meets legislative and health and safety requirements
• Advise clients and architects on energy use and conservation in a range of buildings and sites, aiming to minimise the environmental impact and reduce the carbon footprint

• Experience of design solutions from conception through to completion including calculations, drawings, specifications, etc aligned to RIBA stages and BSRIA BG6
• Qualification with a Building Services degree or higher educational qualification (HNC/HND)
• Revit software experience is essential
• IES modelling would be an advantageous skill
• Good oral and written communication
• Ridge operate a CIBSE accredited mentor scheme for registration to the Engineer Council to obtain CEng